Lean in Laboratories

Whether in pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, chemicals, or food, laboratories are key in the overall capability to deliver products or services to your customers.

Accelerate and Improve Laboratory Response

Laboratories contribute to the value stream at different process stages:

At the early stage, by controlling the quality of raw materials, through statistical or thorough inspection to ensure that 100% of incoming product meets the established quality level.

During the production process, to validate product quality at production start-up or at specific stages of the process.

At the end of the production process to conduct the necessary controls on finished products so that QA can release the production batches.

Because laboratories are a vital link in the value chain it is important to find ways to improve capacity and utilization, reduce lead-times and increase reliability. Applying operational excellence techniques provides useful ways to address these challenges.

Operational Excellence in Laboratories Results in Drastic Improvement

You can apply all the Lean principles in a laboratory to improve flow and reduce waste.

If you are interested in improving your lab performance we can help. Contact us and let us convert your lab into a Lean Lab capable of rapidly delivering qualitative results to operations, QA and the supply chain for standard production batches and the analytical tests required for the development of new products.

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